Female Mastermind Pets Suggestion

Totally agree with your arguement.

Lets see this devs!

This post is going to seem a bit OT for a moment; just bear with me, here.

Paragon Studios has a big freaking sexism, gender-confusion hang-up that I've been fighting out with them periodically for years.

Evidence? Try putting a "Mars" symbol on a female toon's chest. Try putting a "Venus" symbol on a male toon's chest. Go ahead, I'll wait...

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Back yet? Good. Now ask youself, how ridiculous is that? Want to know what response I get every time I ask about it or request this "bug" be fixed? None. Nothing. Not a word. But this little hang-up of theirs was the reason they were so slow to add the *gasp* gender-swapping option in the tailor. They've admitted to that much, at least, though I forget where; might have been at one of the Herocons, the Seattle M&G I was at over a year ago... it's been a while, but I was there at the time.

All this being said, as an avid MM player, I've wanted pet customization for a long time. ANY kind of pet customization. I understand that the resources may not be easily available, but if I can color-swap npc models in the AE (and I can), granting that ability, at least, shouldn't be too far out of reach. I personally have no feelings one way or the other specifically about female MM pets, but if you (collectively) want to see it happen, you're probably going to have to go after the root of the problem.

I've been trying to convince them that there IS such a thing as being TOO worried about offending someone. Here's to hoping other folks will help hold up the torch, so to speak.

One thing I find funny when someone says "if we have female pets people will make pimp characters!" Well... what's to stop them from making pimp characters NOW? Plenty of pimps have male prostitutes. It's pure sexism to think that the only prostitutes out there are female just as it is to assume all thugs are male. Why is a pimp character more demeaning when the prostitutes are female than if they are male?

If I make a female MM named Dominatra and she's got male thugs for her primary and her description says she uses a special pheromone perfume to control her thugs and pimp them out, how is that ANY different from a male dominator named Dominatro with female thugs and an identical description? Why is one more offensive than the other?

I support female pets.

I have a merc/poison mm, with neo-con theme. Having one or two of his soldiers female would make his army feel more Western World/American. Regarding look, I'm personally happy with costumes in the same fashion as their male counterparts, with color customization and adding a badge as chest detail. But I wouldn't object if more options are available.

I don't see why the devs can't give us options similar to the weapon customization. Let us have a choice of looks appropriate to the mastermind primary.

Another possibility: what if only female MM's could have female pets? Are they also afraid of lesbian orgies?

As an avid MM player I would be willing to start with being able to make choices between set minions. The Devs could make up say 6-8 choices for each pet (with some overlap of course) and the player could pick one. That way there would be no chance at doing anything out of control. It would be a step in the right direction at least.

As for the emote thing, I agree with the OP. I've seen female MMs with their male 'slaves' all kneeling around them bowing, saying all manner of things. If that's a problem then simply turn off the option for pets to do those emotes. Even better, forget about the 6 juveniles that MIGHT abuse the system and just deal with problems as they arise. We don't disable PMs because SOME players use it for ERP do we?

This game frequently gets gold stars and mad props for its costume creator and customizability. I think it's fair to expand this to Pets now.

Long wanted female pets. (Though that word sounds wrong when speaking of females. . .) I hear the argument about pimping out every time this subject comes up and every time my reaction is "So what?" who really cares?

If sexism were an issue when why did they make the whole group of sexy female costumes in the gunslinger set? Or the super skimpy female barbarian costumes?

Seriously, who really cares?

I would love to see female alternatives for all of the current male pets. Along with customizable costumes of course! Otherwise why bother?

Obviously the answer is just to allow free-form pet customization like many MM's have been asking for since CoV came out. Their political reasons are a load of nonsense and obviously no one here buys any of that for a second. I've mentioned this elsewhere, but this is extra-true since the class went pay-for. Some limits would be fine, but giving them decent uniforms or whatever would go a long way toward making you feel like a real mastermind -- I mean, what comic book MM have you read about that doesn't have his own special uniforms for his goons?

Christ, the Monarch has custom uniforms for his goons even.

To play Devil's Advocate here, wasn't the explanation at the Pummit about why pet customization wasn't something they could do a matter of resources? I don't know the specifics, but I believe it was something like how pets are roughly equal in terms of data size to PCs, and allowing everyone customization options would be a strain on resources or something to that effect?

I'm not opposed to the idea, personally (To make a pun about sexism I'd note the number of female MM PCs who use Thugs/Mercs and give them names or have a bio denoting how the pets are people they use/abuse! ) but my understanding was that the devs had a fairly understandable reason for not having it.

At least not yet.

When the devs claim there is a technical reason for not allowing total or near-total pet customization -- they are lying. Its a matter of work involved and nothing else. Its programming, the compiler will do what you tell it to and that is all there is to it. Its not a matter of database size -- if it is then upgrade the machine in question.

I've never looked into what language they are programming in or what sort of software they run their servers on, but ultimately it shouldn't be that important. The problem is that it is a fair amount of work -- and maybe thats understandable for some people... but then I do pay to play this game, and this feature has been asked after for literally years now.

They should just buckle down and get it over and done with. Basically, I'm saying -- Look, I'm willing to pay for it. Make it something we purchase from the market to cover the development costs and its a done deal, a system exists for that now so go ahead and use it. I'll buy it and be happy with it. I'll go this far even, I'd still pay for it if it cost twenty bucks. I'd pay for it if it cost ten bucks per MM toon. That, I think, would be worth the effort on their part to just go ahead and do it.